"According to the Mandate of Heaven, all of you are subservient to me and must bend to my will and various whims."
It was a sort of "Divine Right" gig in China. The emperors used their "God-given" powers to ensure it as absolute.
The Zhou claimed they had the right to start a new dynasty because of the Mandate of Heaven.
The word of God is a mandate of heaven.One specific mandate of heaven is to honor God.
About the only mandate of heaven is that we have faith.Though we try to be sinless, only faith fulfills the mandate of heaven.Note: Even though I supplied these sentences, "mandate of heaven" might be an awkward phrase that you could re-write.
because they are a high place and their territory is their heaven No, it means they are royal blood and they are near God. They use the mandate of Heaven which means that God gave them the right to rule.
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how did the mandate of heaven affect government in china
The Mandate of Heaven took popularity or personality out of dynastic rule. The dynasty endured as a Mandate from heaven regardless of the weakness of the rulers.
because the mandate of heaven chose the leaders and kings
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As I understand it, the "Mandate of Heaven" is given to the morally righteous; and it is lost by the morally corrupt.
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